What does extraterrestrial mean?

Definitions for extraterrestrial
ˌɛk strə təˈrɛs tri əlex·trater·res·tri·al

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. extraterrestrial being, extraterrestrial, alienadjective

    a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere

  2. extraterrestrialadjective

    originating or located or occurring outside Earth or its atmosphere

    "is there extraterrestrial life?"

Wiktionary

  1. extraterrestrialnoun

    A being originating from outside of the Earth's atmosphere, from space, or from another planet; an alien

  2. extraterrestrialadjective

    Originating from outside of the Earth's atmosphere, from space, or from another planet; alien to Earth or its environment.

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  1. extraterrestrial

    Extraterrestrial refers to anything that originates, exists or occurs outside of the Earth or Earth's atmosphere. It is most commonly used to describe life forms that may exist or have existed in outer space, or objects such as meteorites that come from outside the Earth's atmosphere.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of extraterrestrial in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of extraterrestrial in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of extraterrestrial in a Sentence

  1. Christopher Conselice:

    Our new research suggests that searches for extraterrestrial intelligent civilizations not only reveals the existence of how life forms, but also gives us clues for how long our own civilization will last, if we find that intelligent life is common then this would reveal that our civilization could exist for much longer than a few hundred years, alternatively if we find that there are no active civilizations in our Galaxy it is a bad sign for our own long-term existence. By searching for extraterrestrial intelligent life — even if we find nothing — we are discovering our own future and fate.

  2. Baptiste Journaux:

    These are the only planetary bodies, other than Earth, where liquid water is stable at geological timescales, which is crucial for the emergence and development of life, they are, in my opinion, the best place in our solar system to discover extraterrestrial life, so we need to study their exotic oceans and interiors to better understand how they formed, evolved and can retain liquid water in cold regions of the solar system, so far away from the sun.

  3. Judith Hayes:

    They didn't find any microbial growth on the lunar samples, and they didn't have any microorganisms that they at least initially attributed to any extraterrestrial source or lunar source, and the crew didn't have any signs of an infectious disease, and all the rodents survived the exams, so everybody did well.

  4. Joan Didion:

    The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.

  5. Frank Postberg:

    It is the first ever detection of complex organics coming from an extraterrestrial water-world.

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